"Stippling" is a word in ENGLISH
of Stipple
A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or
small points instead of lines.
A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is
produced by many small touches.
How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva]
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An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy, which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, give a smile, and a "Thanks for flying XYZ airline." He said that in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment, but no one seemed annoyed.Finally everyone had gotten off except for one little old lady walking with a cane. She approached and asked, conspiratorially, "Sonny, mind if I ask you a question?" "Why no Ma'am, what is it?""Did we land or were we shot down?"
A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
Read the complete definitionA mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or …
Read the complete definitionA mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the …
Read the complete definitionThe act or mode of adding; also, the thing added.
Read the complete definitionAeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode.
Read the complete definitionThe quality of being a la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.
Read the complete definitionA thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode.
Read the complete definitionAccording to the fashion or prevailing mode.
Read the complete definitionThe plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove …
Read the complete definitionLat. ln criminal law. Elsewhere; in another place. A term used to ex-press that mode of defense to a criminal …
Read the complete definitionState or mode of being nourished.
Read the complete definitionA different or for-eign mode of trial. 1 Hale, Com. Law, 38
Read the complete definitionThe first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be.
Read the complete definitionA circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Read the complete definitionThe practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
Read the complete definitionThe mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.
Read the complete definitionA design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.
Read the complete definitionA mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering.
Read the complete definitionAn ancient mode of pun-ishment, which was to carry a saddle at the back as a token of subjection. Spelman
Read the complete definitionThe second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the …
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